Contrasts

Fruit at home...

 ...in a Moroccan bowl on top of paper Robert wipes his brushes on.

How strange and early in the morning it was...

when we had breakfast at a diner on Long Island. Lots of

little plastic containers of things and lots of paper to throw away. Diners do not

'get' tea --that you need to pour boiling water on top of the bag.....

Weaver, Farmer, Neue

Wet day, of course. 

What to do when a walk in Central Park is out of the question?

Weaver of Grass and her husband, The Farmer

are visiting New York from Yorkshire.

I want to show off New York. Make it be on its best behavior.

Elegant, cosmopolitan, luxe. So we have coffee and hot

 chocolate at Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie (a nod to Merisi)

where we can see Central Park from the windows.

We look at the Brucke exhibition...

... and the bookshop and gift shop's  delights.

Then take a bus down 5th Avenue alongside the park.

As we walk west along 59th Street, I spot this diner

and think we have everything here. 

Trains and Stuff/ Shadow Shot Sunday

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Penn Station. Friday afternoon.

The Long Island Railroad train draws in.

The weather outside is frightful. Such wintry skies over Forest Hills.

The decor of the On Parade Diner on Jericho Turnpike in Syosset is totally over the top.

One of the waiters adopts the pensive pose of James Dean in the mural.

 5pm.Hicksville Station. A chilly sun sets in the direction of Manhattan and its light bounces off the posters and railing.

Escape from New York or Shadow Shot Sunday

Looking back on New York from the Pallisades Parkway in New Jersey.

The west side of New York from the West Side Highway. The Empire State Building is oddly recognizable.
Shadow Shot Sunday.

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9am Sunday morning: a diner in New Jersey

More of the same....

7pm Saturday evening: a pizza parlor in New Jersey.

More of the same.

10:30 am Sunday morning. Safe back in Manhattan. West 42nd St. near 11th Avenue.